Associations among externalizing psychopathology, personality, and behavioral traits: Models of an externalizing spectrum in youth.

ABSTRACT: Consistent evidence has documented the cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of externalizing psychopathology with personality and behavioral traits, suggesting the presence of a broad, underlying liability to externalizing. In one of the first studies of its kind, we use a large, representative sample of youth (N = 2,245 twins and their siblings) to evaluate the evidence of an externalizing spectrum model, which includes psychopathology, personality, and behavioral traits and spans normal and pathological variation. We examine evidence for the inclusion of 15 candidate traits, from the domains of general and pathological personality, temperament, and aggression, in a model that includes dimensions of common childhood externalizing psychopathology. Using a combination of str

SUBMITTER: Poore HE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12290986 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature